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Douay-Rheims Bible

Deuteronomy 15:5

Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Lending;   Poor;   Sabbatic Year;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Obedience;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Loans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Freedom;   Lending;   Sabbatical year;   Wealth;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Poor and Poverty, Theology of;   Wealth;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Debt;   Debtor;   Sabbatical Year;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Festivals;   Loan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Debt;   Deuteronomy;   Nations;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Slave, Slavery (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount samaria;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Year sabbatical;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Debts;   Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Carefully;   Lend;   Poor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if only you obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.
Hebrew Names Version
if only you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all this mitzvah which I command you this day.
King James Version
Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
Lexham English Bible
If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God by observing diligently all of these commandments that I am commanding you today.
English Standard Version
if only you will strictly obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.
New Century Version
He will bless you if you obey the Lord your God completely, but you must be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today.
New English Translation
if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.
Amplified Bible
if only you will listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all these commandments which I am commanding you today.
New American Standard Bible
if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to follow carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to obserue and doe all these commandements, which I commande thee this day.
Legacy Standard Bible
if only you listen obediently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today.
Complete Jewish Bible
if only you will listen carefully to what Adonai your God says and take care to obey all these mitzvot I am giving you today.
Darby Translation
if thou only diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.
Easy-to-Read Version
But this will happen only if you obey the Lord your God. You must be careful to obey every command that I have told you today.
George Lamsa Translation
If you hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.
Good News Translation
if you obey him and carefully observe everything that I command you today.
Literal Translation
only if hearing you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all this command which I am commanding you today.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
onely yt thou herke vnto the voyce of the LORDE yi God, & kepe all these comaundemetes which I comaunde the this daye,
American Standard Version
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.
Bible in Basic English
If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, to obserue and do all these commaundementes which I commaunde thee this day:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.
King James Version (1611)
Onely if thou carefully hearken vnto the voice of the Lord thy God, to obserue to doe all these commandedements, which I commaund thee this day.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if ye shall indeed hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as many as I charge thee this day,
English Revised Version
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.
Berean Standard Bible
if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If netheles thou schalt here the vois of thi Lord God, and schalt kepe alle thingis whiche he comaundide, and whiche Y comaunde to dai to thee, he schal blesse thee, as he bihiyte.
Young's Literal Translation
`Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,
Update Bible Version
if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all [of] this commandment which I command you this day.
Webster's Bible Translation
Only if thou shalt carefully hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
World English Bible
if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
New King James Version
only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.
New Living Translation
You will receive this blessing if you are careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today.
New Life Bible
But you must listen and obey the voice of the Lord your God. Be careful to do all the Law which I am telling you today.
New Revised Standard
if only you will obey the Lord your God by diligently observing this entire commandment that I command you today.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
only if thou do hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, - to observe to do - all this commandment which I am commanding time to-day.
Revised Standard Version
if only you will obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

Contextual Overview

1 In the seventh year thou shalt make a remission, 2 Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord. 3 Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again. 4 And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession. 5 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised. 6 Thou shalt lend to many nations, and thou shalt borrow of no man. Thou shalt have dominion over very many nations, and no one shall have dominion over thee. 7 If one of thy brethren that dwelleth within thy gates of thy city in the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, come to poverty: thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor close thy hand, 8 But shalt open it to the poor man, thou shalt lend him, that which thou perceivest he hath need of. 9 Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee. 10 But thou shalt give to him: neither shalt thou do any thing craftily in relieving his necessities: that the Lord thy God may bless thee at all times, and in all things to which thou shalt put thy hand.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 11:13-15, Deuteronomy 28:1-15, Leviticus 26:3-14, Joshua 1:7, Psalms 19:11, Isaiah 1:19, Isaiah 1:20, Philippians 1:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:17 - hearken 1 Kings 11:38 - if thou wilt

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.
Genesis 15:7
And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
Genesis 15:8
But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
Genesis 16:10
And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 22:17
I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
Genesis 26:4
And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.
Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:
Deuteronomy 1:10
I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 5 Only if thou carefully hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,.... In his word, and by his prophets; this being the case, there would be no more poor among them, or however they would be so blessed of God, that they would be capable of releasing the debts of the poor, without hurting themselves and their families:

to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day; a phrase often used to put them in mind of the commands of God, and the necessity of keeping them, their temporal happiness depending thereon.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 ff, and Leviticus 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The release was probably for the year, not total and final, and had reference only to loans lent because of poverty (compare Deuteronomy 15:4, Deuteronomy 15:7). Yet even so the law was found to be too stringent for the avarice of the people, because it was one of those which the rabbis “made of none effect by their traditions.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

Because it is called the Lord’s release - Render, because proclamation has been made of the Lord’s release. The verb is impersonal, and implies (compare Deuteronomy 31:10) that “the solemnity of the year of release” has been publicly announced.

Deuteronomy 15:3

The foreigner would not be bound by the restriction of the sabbatical year, and therefore would have no claim to its special remissions and privileges. He could earn his usual income in the seventh as in other years, and therefore is not exonerated from liability to discharge a debt anymore in the one than the others.

Deuteronomy 15:4

There is no inconsistency between this and Deuteronomy 15:11. The meaning seems simply to be, “Thou must release the debt for the year, except when there be no poor person concerned, a contingency which may happen, for the Lord shall greatly bless thee.” The general object of these precepts, as also of the year of Jubilee and the laws respecting inheritance, is to prevent the total ruin of a needy person, and his disappearance from the families of Israel by the sale of his patrimony.

Deuteronomy 15:9

literally: “Beware that there be not in thy heart a word which is worthlessness” (compare Deuteronomy 13:13 note).


 
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